通读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后在每小题给出的四个选项中,选出一个最佳答案,并将答题卡上对应的选项涂黑。
Mike and his father hadn’t talked for ten years. Ten years ago, Mike’s mother ________. He thought it was his father who caused his mother’s death. He hated his father.
Now they were sitting in a nice ________. Suddenly his father asked the waiter to put some salt in his coffee. Mike was _______. His father smiled and said, “Before you were born, your mother and I often had fun _______ in the sea. We could taste the sea, just like the taste of the salty coffee. Every time I have salty coffee, I always ________ your mother. I miss her so much.”
Mike was deeply moved. He never knew his father had such _______ love for his mother. One month later, he moved in to live with his father. Whenever he made coffee for his father, he would put some _______ in it.
Ten years later, his father died. Mike ________ a letter saying “Dear Mike, please forgive me for my _______ —the salty coffee. Now let me tell you the truth. I don’t like salty coffee actually, but I drank salty coffee for 10 years! Being with you was the biggest _______ of my whole life.”
1. A. hurt B. disappeared C. died D. missed
2. A. mall B. restaurant C. house D. garden
3. A.surprised B. upset C. strange D. disappointed
4. A.drinking B. eating C. working D. playing
5. A.think up B. think over C. think of D. think about
6. A.wide B. deep C. high D. big
7. A.sugar B. milk C. honey D. salt
8. A.wrote B. received C. accepted D. refused
9. A.lie B. secret C. regret D. mistake
10. A.shyness B. kindness C. happiness D. sadness
— Thank you for helping me work out the physics problem.
— ________.
A. Never mind B. It doesn’t matter
C. No, thanks D. It’s my pleasure
Chinese Spelling Hero is a popular TV show ________ focuses on Chinese character writing among teenagers.
A. that B. who C. whom D. what
— Your iPhone is so smart. Can you tell me ________?
— In the new shopping center near my home.
A. when did you buy it B. when you bought it
C. where did you buy it D. where you bought it
— Hi, Susan, can your parents attend the parents’ meeting this afternoon?
— Sorry, they ________ to Hong Kong on business.
A. went B. have gone C. have been D. go
— Excuse me, could you please speak a little more ________?
— Sorry, I thought you could follow me.
A. slow B. quickly
C. slowly D. quick